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The Quarterly Newsletter of the Nez Perce Trail Foundation • O cial Partner of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail • ‘en’im’ (Winter) 2015
President’s Message Dear fellow Nez Perce Trail Foundation members, This time of year our schedules seem to become more hectic with every passing day. The holiday season can be nerve racking and stressful and it's not until January 2nd do we seem to be able to take a breath. The same holds true for the Nez Perce Trail Foundation. With the end of the year fast approaching we are fortunate that the 2016 Nez Perce National Historic Trail Desk Planners have been shipped and are ready for distribution. You may be aware that the NPTF Board of Directors has decided to change our membership renewal system. We will now renew all current memberships on a calendar basis, with all renewals requested to be e ective for January through December. This procedure will be so much easier for our membership chairman to control. Very soon you should receive your Jim Zimmerman, 2016 Desk Planner along with the membership renewal notice for 2016. Your support is so very critical to the President NPTF mission of the Foundation. The good news is, that after a di cult period of time we are now in the black and our nancial outlook is very promising. This past year we have seen the passing of several notable Nez Perce family members and individuals who have meant so much to the Nez Perce Trail Foundation and to the Nez Perce Nation. As always, we were saddened by the passing of Ruth Wapato, who was so dedicated to the Trail. We were blessed with her knowledge of the events of 1877 that she so willingly shared with all of us. When we lost Horace Axtell, we lost per- haps the most in uential and recognizable Nez Perce elder of our time. As a WWII veteran, leader of the seven drum religion, Tribal Historian, and a preservationist of the Nez Perce language, Horace represented the spirit of the Nez Perce tribe. What he accomplished could be a book unto itself. We will miss both Ruth and Horace greatly. Frank Blackeagle and the others that have passed this year have also been an important part of the Nez Perce legacy, and their contributions will be greatly missed as well. The Nez Perce Trail Foundation continues to chip away at our reorganization e orts and progress is being made. Paul Wapato was gracious enough to formalize an outline of suggested updates to our current Foundation By-Laws. Paul took a great deal of time to research the By-Laws of similar Trail Associations and came up with solid, meaningful recommendations. Hopefully those recommendations will be approved in the very near future. The Foundation still has several Board positions that are open and need to be lled with individuals that have a love for the Nez Perce National Historic Trail and a desire to contribute to the Preservation, Protection, and Commemoration of the Trail. Please feel free to contact our Secretary if you have any interest to become part of our administrative board. As the year end fast approaches, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your past interest and support. The Foundation could not have made it without you. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
Sincerely,
Jim Zimmerman Dick Seymour Karen Heagen Tricia Taylor Matt Nowak President / Partnerships Vice President / Historic Trails Secretary / Research Treasurer / Finance Membership / Projects
NEWS and FACES from the NPNHT NPTF Memberships Our work celebrates the rich traditions and histories of the Flight of 1877. Our sta is renew on *January 1st, 2016 dedicated to increasing our understand- *Except for those who joined or renewed after October 1, 2015 ing of the past events and future life of the young people who will be our next leaders. We are mandated to preserve, display, and
Sandi McFarland, embody every facet of the NPNHT. Friends Roger Peterson NPNHT-FS of the NPNHT treasure and incorporate their NPNHT-FS Administrator personal a ection for this trail into active Public A airs participation in the daily NPNHT work. Join or Renew TODAY! • NPNHT Challenge Cost Share Projects & Program • NPNHT Work Projects clear miles of Nez Perce Trail tred Please send your membership dues or renewals to: • Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Tear Sheet Maps NPTF • 1007 North 2nd Street • Lansing, Kansas 66043 • NPNHT 2016 Desk Planner is now available and being shipped. Attention: Matt Nowak • Completed AUTO TOUR Routes to Bear Paw are now available For more information on these topics, contact www.fs.usda.gov/npnht Visit our website for details at www.nezpercetrail.net FOLLOWING the FOOTSTEPS -- with Hetty Dutra Part 4 June 26, Top of White Bird Hill -- “Yesterday was very cloudy, but no Weis Rockshelter to Grangeville, Idaho showers, then the skies opened and it rained all night. Not wanting to put my June 18 - June 29, 2014 tent up in the rain, I put my sleeping bag on the "dressing room" oor. Pretty com- fortable. The rain persisted, so I fed my darling ponies. An hour or two later, the rain stopped, so I took them carrots, clean- ed their stalls (bigger than my 12 x12), and lled their water. It's a good day to be in, as the sky is still dark and threaten- ing. I didn't add shavings as the roof is a little leaky, and they only get a small toss NPTF Member Hetty Dutra riding her Quarter horse to keep the oor dry. Shug believes he has “Shug” and Appaloosa to lie down to sleep, plus he walks around “Cheetah” while on their stirring it up, so he's a little dirty. epic journey over the Nez Cheetah is the opposite, choosing a place Perce Trail in the summer to rest in the deepest shavings and won’t of 2014. walk around and stir things up - Mr. Neat. Although I'm so glad John is coming soon, ©2014 Photo by Karen Heagen, NPTF there's a tad of sadness. The world has We continue with Part 4 of Hetty’s journey on the Nez Perce Trail, starting with the Nez Perce gotten faster and less personal. Twenty ancient landmark of Weis Rockshelter near the Salmon River. All photos © Hetty Dutra years ago people were less wary of strangers. But so many people have been June 18, Weis Rockshelter -- “My photos can- Camas Prairie. Tolo Lake is an ancient rendez- kind and helpful. Many more make a point not capture the scale of the landscape on Graves vous site the Nez Perce used for gathering of not making eye contact. Makes you Creek Road: The height of the canyon walls, the camas root and for meeting with neighboring wonder what we would do if someone depth of the canyons, or the steepness. bands. The Nez Perce called the lake “Tepahle- asked to spend the night at my place. Ancestors of the Nez Perce used this rock shelter wam” or “Split Rocks.” Tolo Lake, which dates Would it make a di erence if it was an old, more than 8,000 years ago. It is not a cave, but back to the last ice age, was almost empty dirty woman looking done-in, or a young, a small niche in a wall of basalt. The shelter was twenty years ago. Remains of a Pleistocene clean, energetic young woman? How continuously mammoth and a prehistoric bison were would a man fare? There are many cyclists inhabited until excavated from the lake that year.” and motorcyclists on the roads going long about 600 years * Editor’s Note: Tolo Lake was named after Yellow distances, but they stay at motels. ago. It is close to Bull’s sister “Tolo’”, who became famous for warning Anyway, having backup will save me, and the Salmon River, the white settlers that the Nez Perce were on the war path. make it possible to nish, so I'm very making it an ideal grateful to my friend John for taking on location because June 23 , Whitebird -- “Riding up through the the task of driving ahead with my supplies of nearby major White Bird Battle eld, I looked down towards horse trailer, and feed.” food sources and where the main Nez Perce camp would have transportation been, where they would have been packing up June 28, Joseph Plains -- routes.” Weis Rockshelter to ee across the Salmon River. I spent a night “On the Joseph Plains. John and I ran in a barn near the summit of White Bird Hill just errands and got supplies in the morning, June 22, Tolo Lake --The pictures I took of Tolo o old Highway 95, where the horses had abun- then picked up Shug and Cheetah. John Lake from the other side of Lake Road just didn't dant feed. Yes, it did rain most of the day. drove down Graves Creek Road and up, show it o . These show it from the north. In up, up the extremely dangerous grade. 1994 it had been drained, to excavate a mam- moth skeleton. It looked like a big dark mud Continued on Page 3 puddle back then. People even boat on it today, as you can see. The lake covers about 35 acres The NPTF is looking for a few and is the largest natural water body on the dedicated individuals that wish to volunteer their skills a few hours per month in: Beautiful view Marketing • Merchandising • Grant Writing of Tolo Lake near Grangeville, Please contact Idaho [email protected] or 949-280-2894 Overlooking the White Bird Battle eld. This battle marked the beginning of the Nez Perce War of 1877. ‘Iskitpe--Page 2 Hetty Dutra Continued from Page 2 NEZ PERCE YOUTH
It's steep, it's narrow, no guard rail, and Former Lapwai High School Wildcat wins Scholarship if you went o you could end up 2,000 Winners of the 2015 Young Native’s Essay Contest were announced feet down! Still, the canyon and rim last summer in July. Mykel Johnson, Nez Perce, from Lapwai, Idaho rocks, the trees and plains topped by was one of the ve rst place winners. Open to high school students clouds are beautiful. from all Native American 9th-12th graders, the essay theme this year We are staying and was “Select an image from your individual tribe and write about how overnighting at the it represents your people.” Poxleitners on Mykel chose the Nez Perce Trail. She was awarded a $2,500. scholar- Graves Creek - at the ship, sponsored by the National Indian Education Association, the top. Shug and Chee- National Museum of the American Indian, and the Holland and tah are playing in Knight Law Firm. the corral and the As one of the winners, Mykel represented the Nez Perce Tribe and sky is ablaze with Scenic road on the journeyed to Washington, D.C. During the “Scholars Week,” Mykel Joseph Plains golden clouds.” enjoyed sightseeing, visited the National Museum of the American Indian, met state representatives, networked with professionals Ken Grover, NMAI Director June 29, Grangeville -- “Got o at 7:30 and essay winner that are Native American, and learned about alot of opportunites for Mykel Johnson, Nez Perce this morning riding Shug and ponying future internships. Mykel is now currently a student at Washington State Cheetah. Rode up Graves Creek Road University at Pullman, WA. Congratulations Mykel! The Nez Perce Trail Foundation is proud of you! and turned onto Twin House. It was warm enough that I wore a cotton shirt, “The trail of the Nez Perce War of 1877 represents the plight of my family’s band to Canada in 1877. In an a lightweight jacket, and the security attempt to escape the United States Army, the Wallowa band traveled 1,170 miles through Oregon, Idaho, vest in blaze orange. Although it was Montana, and Wyoming (Walker). They crossed the Rocky and Bitterroot Mountain ranges facing over seven cloudy, I didn't take my raincoat. At one battles in four months. The map that hangs in the Nez Perce Historical Museum in Spaulding, Idaho is simple point, I realized I hadn't been counting and well drawn. This image serves as a representation of the journey that changed the lives of my people. The streets. Worrying, I left John a message. map shows visitors the path and distance my ancestors embarked on in pursuit of freedom. However, the over- I called a little later and he picked up. all message I interpret touches places of my heart too deep to fully understand. This image stands as reminder He'd already been putting trail markers of the su ering and hardships placed on the backs of my people. This image now stands as a reminder of the out! Kept me from getting lost. John promise and hope of our future. Due to the discovery of gold surrounding Pierce, Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe was waiting for me at Old Hwy. 7/126. faced many injustices. The Treaty established by Isaac I. Stevens in 1855 was disregarded resulting in additional I saw him from a distance, but it seemed land loss for the Nez Perce. Although not all tribal leaders had signed the Treaty of 1863, the United States like it took an eternity to get there. Shug ordered the removal of my people, the Wallowa band, from our original homelands at the mouth of the Lostine picked up my enthusiasm, and upped and Wallowa Rivers to the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Fort Lapwai, Idaho (National). On June 12th, 1877 the pace. Shug, Cheetah and I were all Nez Perce warriors staged a war parade through camp at Tolo Lake. With only two days left of liberty, the men thirsty, and ready for a break! John had of the tribe had recalled all of the previous wrongs and deceit fed to them. The young men felt hurt and humil- already had lunch things out. We stud- iated by the generations of persecution and their self-restraint hung by a thread. Hostilities resulted between ied the maps and realized it would not white settlers and the Nez Perce. Word spread that an Indian war in the West had started. General Howard of be a long day tomorrow, because, for the US military pursued the Nez Perce with two companies of Calvary. As a result, the battle of Whitebird had the safety of my horses, I cannot ride occurred, in which 33 U.S. soldiers were killed. It was proclaimed as “Chief Joseph’s War” (Josephy 499). The Nez Perce warriors scouted the back trail and knew Howard’s position. They nicknamed him “Day After Tomorrow” down the grade into Stites. We decided in reference to location (Johnson). In order to elude the army, the Nez Perce were forced to leave behind many to ask the last house on Zumwalt if we possessions. The journey consisted of men, women, children, the elderly, and sick. They traveled with a herd of could stay there. It had corrals with over 2500 horses. With low supplies and bad conditions, the journey would take many lives (Josephy 520). grass everywhere, which the horses The Nez Perce War Trail is more than a route taken. There are many burial sites and trauma that occurred on the would love. There was plenty of room journey to Canada. This trail serves as a reminder to the Nez Perce of the epic struggle to survive spiritually, for the rig, well o the road, and it was culturally, and physically. The Nez Perce chose to take the Nez Perce Buffalo Trail (now known as the Lolo Trail) beautifully neat and tidy. They said yes, to escape the war in Idaho. Many feeble elders would stay behind due to the severity of the path chosen so here we are camped. Happy horses, (Walker). Chief Looking Glass implored the warriors to stop at Big Hole, also known as “Icuumcemeelexpe” (Place my tent up, and I cleaned up a bit and of the Ground Squirrels). The warriors wanted to scout the back trail but Looking Glass felt after trading with put on clean clothes. We're invited to local settlers, the war was left in Idaho (Josephy 563). Looking Glass directed the men to make camp and rest a chicken soup, salad, and rhubarb pie the people. A battle broke out at early dawn on August eighth. A nearly blind Nez Perce elder had gone to nd dinner too. Joe & Mary Flury are super his horses and was shot by soldiers. This began the battle of Big Hole. General Gibbon ordered his men to shoot nice, and their place is special, so we'll low into the tipis. Soldiers spared no lives and shot babies, mothers and elders unable to defend themselves. enjoy the dinner and conversation. At the end of this battle, ninety Nez Perce were killed (Johnson). The Nez Perce would travel the Lemhi Trail in Time to feed Cheetah & Shug.” Idaho and eventually end up seeking refuge among the Crow. However, when denied help, the bands were Until later, Hetty compelled to continue towards Canada. Looking Glass lost his leadership due to the losses at Big Hole and Lean Elk assumed leadership and led the remaining Nez Perce towards Canada (Johnson). They headed north to Canada and stopped at the Bearpaw Mountains. Nearly 40 miles from the border of Canada, the Nez Perce Mary & Joe Flury in were starving, cold, and ill. Chief Looking Glass insisted that they stop. With no shelter and no food, many dug the shade on the into the creek bank for warmth and safety. During the attack from the US Army led by Howard, cannons were green lawn in front red and leaders of the bands were killed. Ollikot, who was the war chief, younger brother to Chief Joseph and of their house in Grangeville, ID. Continued on Page 4 3 Mykel Johnson Essay Continued from Page 3 FEATURED MEMBER my great-great-great-grandfather, was killed. The result of this battle was the surrender of Chief Joseph who o ered up the ri e in order to save the rest of KATEE HEAGEN the bands. The su ering was said to be heard in Joseph’s voice as he spoke his historic speech. Written by Major Wood and translated by Ad Chapman, from Joseph’s speech is remembered, studied, and sacred to my people. Chief Joseph’s speech would mark the end of the Nez Perce War Trail (Josephy 609). Los Angeles , California This Nez Perce War Trail image is stamped boldly on my heart and implanted Katee joined the NPTF in 2014. She lives in my mind because I am aware of the history behind the Trail. Over 1,170 in Los Angeles, Ca. and travels extensively miles represent the endurance and heart my people possess. The trail has throughout the U.S. and the world. Her love taken many lives, history, and potential of my people. The history of this trail of the outdoors, nature, history, and horses has made me the person that I am today. This image represents a journey for ©2015 Katee Laine Photography led her to joining the NPTF. Katee attends freedom that my people have always known. My father always says, “Never the annual Tamkaliks Celebration and has participated in the NPTF forget your past, never forget your people, and never forget where you come Summer Educational Trail Tour. She has traveled on excursions to from.” This image of the Nez Perce Trail however, gives me hope. In today’s more isolated portions of the Trail as well. Katee is the head aerial world and reality, we are in a sense still ghting a war on the Nez Perce cinematographer/camera operator for Wild Rabbit Productions, Reservation. We, in a sense, are still traveling on our trail in pursuit of under- a drone lming company specializing in commercials, sporting events, standing and compassion from others who would take a moment to hear us. movies, and documentaries. She is also a fashion photographer for a This image shows me that no matter the length of the journey, my people major international clothing company. will survive. The Nez Perce Tribe ended the physical trail over 138 years ago with bowed heads and heavy hearts. However, my generation is awakening Well done Katee and qe’ciye’w’yew (Thank you!) and learning to stand up and tell a story because others are willing to listen. Despite the hardships, we still love ercely and care for one another. Despite If you would like to be our Featured Member, or know someone who would like to be, please submit a name, photo, short bio., and why the Nez Perce the burial sites spread over 1,170 miles we continue to live. Despite the pain Trail is of interest to you (or them.) Please send to [email protected] in icted, we help heal one another’s wounds and continue on. Despite the lack of understanding and pain in icted on the Nez Perce people, we are still here. A trail that is never ending; we still survive.” WELCOME to the NPTF © 2015 Mykel Johnson Ellie Troutman (Life Member) • Kentucky Elaine Husted • Oregon NPTF DONATIONS & GIFTS Oldham County Historical Society • Kentucky NPTF Annual Scholarships St. Mel’s Parish, 3rd Grade Class • California Applications for the 2016 Awards CONTRIBUTIONS are now being accepted! All members are encouraged to submit materials that relate to the Scholarship Award Winners Nez Perce Trail for consideration of inclusion in our quarterly publication of ‘Iskitpe newsletter or monthly Hinme•t update. will be announced Please submit to: [email protected] at the or mail to: NPTF, P.O. Box 5024, Bend, Oregon 97708 Tamkaliks Celebration • Wallowa,©2015 Oregon NPTF PHOTO • July 2016 For more information and to obtain a scholarship application, The Wallowa Land Trust Protecting the rural nature of the Wallowa Country by please contact Duane Heglie, NPTF at: working cooperatively with private landowners, Indian [email protected] tribes, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land. For more information, please contact P.O. Box 516, Enterprise, Oregon 97828 • 541-426-2042 • www.wallowalandtrust.org Gear Up for our Annual 2016 THE LONGHOUSE Dream Summer Educational Trail Tour By POPULAR demand, we will journey A Place to Gather. from Yellowstone to Bear Paw this year! Donate today! Details and itinerary to come soon.
We expect a sellout©2015 of NPTFspaces, PHOTO so WALLOWA BAND NEZ PERCE TRAIL INTERPRETIVE CENTER make your reservations early, P.O. Box 15 • 209 East 2nd Street • Wallowa, Oregon 97885 541-886-3101 • www.wallowanezperce.org starting March 1, 2016 [email protected] • 541-886-3101 4 MEETINGS . . . NPTF - USFS Board of Directors Meeting Make 2016 Your Breast Cancer Missoula, Montana Awareness “Year.” Make an appointment.
Nez Perce Trail Foundation Make it part of your representatives meet and New Year’s resolution. confer with the U.S.D.A -F.S. Q administrators in October Qe’ciye’w’yew to discuss future plans with the Foundation and their ©2014 KL HEAGEN PHOTO partnership with the NPNHT. Shown left to right: A Brief MESSAGE FROM YOUR Paul Wapato, NPTF B.O.D., Jim Zimmerman, NPTF Pres., SECRETARY and George Bain, U.S.D.A.-FS Director of Recreation, Lands, It seems like the holiday season comes Minerals, Heritage, and upon us faster each year. And during each Wilderness. year, life becomes busier for most of us at
©2015 Karen Heagen, NPTF the Foundation. None of us are immune from life changes, loss, and health issues. On a crisp, fall Montana day, members of the Nez Perce Trail Foundation’s Executive Committee and Such is life; such is a spirit’s perseverance. Board of Directors met with members of the U.S.D.A.-Forest Service to discuss progress, plans, and Jim Zimmerman, current NPTF president, projects with regards to the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. Present were George Bain, U.S.D.A.-FS steadily steers us out of nancial issues. Director of Recreation, Lands, Minerals, Heritage, and Wilderness; Sandi McFarland, U.S.D.A.-FS Tricia Taylor handles our precious Treasury. NPNHT Administrator; and Teri Johnson, U.S.F.S. Grants Management. Also present for the NPTF Duane Heglie mentors our annual Trail were Jim Zimmerman, Pres.; Paul Wapato, B.O.D., Margaret and Charlie Moses, Jr., B.O.D., Karen Trip groups. Matt Nowak maintainsHetty Dutra our Photo Heagen, Secretary; Carolynn Merrel; Bernice Ellenwood, Nez Perce tribal member; Matt Nowak, great membership. Paul Wapato is our NPTF Membership, via conference call; Dick Seymour, NPTF Vice Pres., via conference call; and Tricia business mind, while Dick Seymour keeps Taylor, NPTF Treasurer, via conference call. Major issues covered were the outdated NPTF By Laws, us informed of Trail matters. ©2014Charlie KL HEAGEN and PHOTO future projects such as Ft. Leavenworth, NPNHT production of the Desk Planner, Life HettyTime Dutra Member- Photo Margaret Moses guide us with their ship recognitions, Hike-the-Hill, PNTS Annual Conference, Historical Trails Workshop, andHetty Dutra the Ph to wisdom. We are rejuvenated, revitalized, Federal Inter-Agency Council attendance in 2016. The NPNHT reported progress regarding signage and inspired to loyaly continue our work inventory, signage identi cation, Fall poster production, and future projects enabling visitor access with the Foundation and it’s mission. to the Trail. The Auto Route revisions will begin in Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Onward we go, but we still need more of Completion of the Auto Route guide to Bear Paw is now complete. Also discussed was the Land those that will volunteer their skills for us. and Water Conservation Fund that was voted down by the Republican Party members of Congress. Now the holidays are upon us, further This result will highly a ect all programs related to our public lands and their usage. complicating our lives with the other After the meeting concluded, several members of the NPTF visited the historical site of Ft. Missoula. good things in life. New membership, Located only a few miles Northwest of down- newsletters, corresponding, marketing, town Missoula, some of the original buildings and ongoing public relations duties have ©2014 KL HEAGEN PHOTO still stand. The parade grounds and center become my sugar plums while I sleep. I’m gazebo are evident as you drive through the in the habit of placing a yellow legal pad property. As you recall, Ft. Missoula was where near my bedside, not for Santa, but so as the U.S. Army troops were quickly dispatched not to forget things. My position, as well to stop the Nez Perce on the lower Lolo Trail. as the other positions on the Executive Their makeshift fortress was called “Fort Fizzle.” Committee and Board of Directors, are Unable to prevent their advance, most of the voluntary. It is our passion, not our job. troops under Lt. Rawn and his 100 volunteers We serve to tell the Nez Perce story. returned to Ft. Missoula without incident. We share friendships with those who were once called “the enemy” in the 1877. ©2015 Karen Heagen, NPTF They were here rst, living in their home- lands, with so much wisdom about the Above: The beautiful parade grounds of old natural world. They miraculously survived. Ft. Missoula, located in the Bitterroot Valley And now we strive to right the wrongs and of Montana. heal old wounds. We celebrate when their youth discovers their history, and grieve Right: Part of the original barracks built by when they discover the pain and hardship U.S. Army troops stationed at Ft. Missoula of the tragic journey in 1877 to seek peace during the Nez Perce War of 1877. and freedom. Wa’aqo’kalo’ &©2014 qe’ciye’w'yew. KL HEAGEN PHOTO Hetty Dutra Photo ©2015 Karen Heagen, NPTF Karen Heagen 52 RECOMMENDED READING “I Will Tell of My War Story” ✓ -- A Pictorial Account of the Nez Perce War By Scott M. Thompson
After the surrender at Bear Paw, Montana, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their ight to Canada with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota. "I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s. It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. The Cash Book drawings are one of very few rsthand ©2000 University of Washington Press P.O. Box 50096 • Seattle, Washington 98145 pictorial records of the Nez Perce War taken from the Indian viewpoint and contain invaluable ISBN-13: historical and ethnographic information. ISBN-10: 0295979437 *Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.
DID YOU KNOW? NEZ PERCE WORDS Did you know that the Nez Perce ancestors One Na’qc Six ‘Oyla’qu said that the Appaloosa war horse appeared Two Lepi’t Seven ‘Uyne’p to sweat blood from it’s skin? This became Three Mita’t Eight ‘Oymata the explanation for the spots on it’s body. Four Pi’lep Nine K’u’yc Five Pa’xat Ten Pu’tim MISSION STATEMENT of the NEZ PERCE TRAIL FOUNDATION The Nez Perce Trail Foundation exists to promote public awareness and appreciation of the historic route of the tragic 1877 ight of the Nez Perce from the U.S. Army. Much of this route is recognized by our nation as the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, extending from Wallowa Lake in Oregon to the Bears Paw Battle eld in northern Montana. The Foundation shall work, either individually or jointly, with governmental agencies and others to preserve and protect cultural resources and values while promoting respectful use by all. Our mission also advocates extension of the trail to include these additional routes: the Redheart band's forced march to Ft. Vancouver, Washington and their incarceration; the journey to exile at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and in the Oklahoma Territory; the escape route into Canada used by the survivors; and the return from exile to the Lapwai, Colville, Umatilla, Yakima, and Palouse area Indian Reservations of the northwest.
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